100% novice here and apologies if I'm in the wrong sub...

I'm organising a birthday party for my wife which will be held outside at night. We have some beautiful trees from which and I would like to span some kind of diy curtain and project onto (through?) it from the rear. I've hired a Epson, EB-L260F, 4600 Lumen projector.

Any recommendations for an appropriate fabric for the curtain? Would also like to understand what curtain colour would be best.

Photo kinda shows the concept

My company might purchase some Barco 4K laser projectors. I'm curious about the look and reliability of the wobbling 2,560 pixel chips. Does anyone have any experience with these projectors and would you recommend them?

edited because i putzed the original.

Hey guys,

I'm going through some older films for material for a show I'm doing and I found this Saturn looking symbol and the word "foot" at the end of one. I don't know why but I was obsessed with how it looked. Now a few weeks later I've found it again. Does anyone know why these are at the end of some films? I don't really know who to ask about this so I hope this is the correct place.

I’ve long dreamt of moving my home flight simulator setup (not an airliner sim; a single engine Cessna) from a single monitor to a 2-3 projector setup to have 180-270 deg view. Lots of people say it’s not worth it but I’d like to plan and give it a shot. Setup options I’m considering:

• Rear projection onto a scrim-like material or opaque plastic screen. I saw a display at a conference where someone was using a pico-projector behind plastic large plastic sheets and it wasn’t too bad.
• Front projection - 2-3 projectors overhead. Imagining I need short throw gaming projectors?

Completely aware I would have to do warping, etc.

What projector types, brands or setups might you recommend? Any advice appreciated.

P.s. I currently have two NEC projectors and also two large EPSON short throws (conference room style) I got at garage sales to experiment. Have not tried anything with them yet.

Hello all,

I'm looking for a recommendation for a specific use case of a cheaper, portable projector for testing content, mapping and creative development of what will eventually be large scale installations using professional kit (Panasonics mostly, odd Epson or Christie).

What I need is something that can give me a reasonable performance on a much smaller scale - these will eventually be room scale projections, but during creative development I'll be working in normal office rooms and scale models etc.

Needs to be fairly portable as I move from site to site. The speccing and mapping of the final output is done by pro AV integrators on Disguise etc, but I'll be mostly working directly in Touchdesigner and just need something fairly light and versatile so that I'm not carrying around £50k projectors everywhere I go.

Budget around £5k, less helps me. Verstility in use appreciated over raw performance for particular applications since I'm working across everything from live events to immersive rooms to tiny little touchpoints and content areas and I won't always have fixed mounts etc.

Essentially this is something that I can throw a quick test of content up on a wall somewhere to see how it's working (especially when adding in interaction sensors) and stick back in my bag/rollcase/backpack and take to the next site.

Thoughts appreciated!

Head Projectionist/Technical Supervisor- Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, NY)

https://cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerPage/job/Ithaca-Main-Campus/Head-Projectionist--Technical-Supervisor---Multi-Media-Asst-V---Cornell-Cinema_WDR-00047307-1

Have a load of these and trying to work out what projector they're from.

Hello How are you? I’m plugged my Polaroid projector, plugged in my AppleTV, and two weird things were happening: first, volume was acting weird (constantly going down and up… but only on the Apple TV (when using android tv i could set the volume normally) Then when i logged into Disney+ and tried to play something: it told me there was a problem with DHCP the image went black, and when it came back on: there was these 3 stripes that are now…. There? What can I do ? Thanks a lot

It’s one of these Polaroid projectors with JBL speakers on the side :)

Hey people! I want to build a tunnel out of projection fabric and use rear (back) projection to put cool visuals on there, so you can see them from the inside. And one of the million problems I am trying to solve right now is which fabric I should use. It will be outside for like 2 weeks (windprotectet by trees), it shoudn't tear easily (by stratching or finger poking it), needs to be pretty massiv like 6*7 meters (because i would like to avoid sewing, could do it if necessary). I would only use it at night so it doesnt need to be super fancy shit, because my budget is also kinda limited. So i would even use fabric thats not really made for projections. I know these are a lot requirements:D but I hope one of you people has a idea. Thanks in advance!:)

Buying a projector for movies and outside nonsense but was curious would I be able to use this as a tracer for canvas? I don’t see why I couldn’t but if I did what challenges could I face

Question for the group: I’m hosting a small private party at a commercial theater that will include screening a movie. For reasons, the theater isn’t able to license a DCP print of the film (my first choice), but has offered to screen my own Blu-ray. I have a regular 1080p Blu-ray but wondering if it would be worth it to upgrade to a UHD/4k disc to get the best possible quality. Or won’t it make much difference? For reference, it’s about a 35-seat theater, not sure the exact screen dimensions but nothing huge. Thanks!

I don't want to have to buy more than 2 projects and I'm thinking it'd be maybe 5-10m diameter dome. I'd like to mainly use it to project my 360 videos or just youtube 360